Senior Software Engineer: Pay up to £78,517 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid home working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.
DWP. Digital with Purpose.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join DWP's Garage Live Service team, where we are building automations, using the latest cloud technologies to support digital transformation and improve colleague and customer experiences
To date, The Garage has developed and deployed over 75 solutions that have processed over 45 million transactions. Recognised as a government leader in intelligent automation, The Garage is also acknowledged as leading the way across industry.
DWP is UK's largest department, every year we pay over £120 billion to 18million DWP customers.
DWP services cover everything from helping children & families right through to supporting relatives of lost loved ones.
We help people find jobs, support people financially when they are unable to work due to health conditions and make ensure everybody has the money they need to live during their retirement years.
The scale of what we do is outstanding, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.
What skills, knowledge and experience will you need to show us in your application?
- Expert knowledge and extensive experience creating and maintaining robotic process automation using UiPath and Blue Prism, as well as JavaScript/Node.JS and TypeScript technologies, frameworks and design principles. Capable of leading the production of software solutions of the highest quality.*
- Extensive experience of Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) practices and techniques.
- Knowledge and experience of APIs, RESTful services and Microservice Architectures.
- Expert knowledge and extensive experience of developing on cloud-based environments like AWS and Azure.
- Knowledge and experience of SQL and NoSQL database applications such as Postgres, MySQL and MongoDB.
- Experience and the skills required to build up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a continuous deployment environment.
- Experience of leading multidisciplinary engineering teams, communicating with stakeholders, driving delivery, ensuring standards, ways of working and building supportive and collaborative culture.
You and your role
As a Senior Software Engineer in The Garage Live Service team, you will be accountable for daily operational stability, ongoing development and maintenance of products and services for DWP.
You will lead and guide multiple technical teams and stakeholders to oversee the smooth transition of products and services built within The Garage into live service running.
You will provide guidance to ensure the development of quality software products that have clean, secure, well-documented code.
To help you really make a difference, you'll be using the best tools and equipment for the job.
To support you in your role, you'll have access to some fantastic learning and development resources; conferences with industry expert speakers, comprehensive instructor-led training, and subscriptions to digital training solutions such as Cloud Academy.
Details. Wages. Perks.
Location: You'll join us in our brilliant digital hub in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Hybrid Working: We have all the tools and tech we need to enable our people to work flexibly. We work a hybrid model with a mix of home working and sometime in the office.
Pay: In return for your skills, we offer competitive pay of up to £78,517 p.a.
Pension: You'll be eligible for a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97% (Worth up to £19,000/year).
Holidays: You'll get a generous leave package starting at 26 days, rising to 31 days over time, plus all the usual bank holidays, and the option to take extra days off on flexi leave.
We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
- Flexible working, flexi hours and flexi days
- Hybrid working: some time in a hub with the team, some time at home
- Time off volunteering and charitable giving
- Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
- Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
- Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket
- Sports and social activities
- Working in an award-winning environment and culture
- Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.
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